Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 13, 1960)

Vol. 25, No. 28

VOICE of the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE

Incorporating the CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST (Founded !|915)

INDUSTRY

TORONTO, July 13, 1960

ASTRAL: MAKING IT THE HARD WAY

HOW TO GROW IN BAD TIMES;
OFFERING 36 FEATURES

The phenomenon of growth during a period of great con-
traction in the motion picture industry has no better example
than that of Astral Films Ltd., Toronto, which is headed by
I. H. (Izzy) Allen and which has Jerry Solway as its general

TV Hurt Films?
On The Contrary

Television has not curtailed or
diminished the showings of the
National Film Board in non-ITV
areas in any way but “is an in-
centive and serves to accelerate
them,”’ the Hon. Ellen Fairclough,
Minister of Citizenship and Immi-
gration, told the House of Com-

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The Jule Allens
Mark 50th Anni

Fiftieth wedding anniversary
celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Jule
Allen in Toronto recently brought
to mind the contribution of the
Allens and Louis Rosenfeld to the
development of the Canadian mo-
tion picture industry. Sara Rosen-
feld, who — said The Brantford

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Ottawa TV To Bushnell,
NTA, Caldwell Et Al

Recommendation that the TV licence
for Ottawa's third station (the CBC
operates English and French-language
stations there) be awarded to the E. L.
Bushnell Television Co. Ltd. was made
after its capital city hearings by the
Board of Broadcast Governors.

The Bushnell group, which won out
over four applicants, has 37 share-
holders, among them NTA _ Telefilm
(Canada) Ltd., an N. A. Taylor Asso-
ciates company headed by David Gries-
dorf in which NTA of the USA is a
partner; Granada TV Network of the
UK, subsidiary of a theatre circuit; and
Spence Caldwell, Toronto film studio
owner and TV sales-and-service oper-
ator.

Bushnell is also a director of another
successful company, to be incorporated
by E. G. Archibald of station CHOV,
Pembroke, the BBG favoring its appli-

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No Production Letup
By United Artists

With seven major productions starting in July, United
Artists will have the largest number of new films to go before
the cameras in one month this year of any motion picture
company. The features for UA release will be made in Holly-

wood; Reno, Nev.; St. Louis,
Mo.; New York City; and over-
seas in Spain. They will rep-
resent a wide range of motion
picture entertainment.

The films include The Misfits,
starring Clark Gable, Marilyn
Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli
Wallach and Thelma Ritter, and
directed by John Huston, Arthur
Miller wrote the original screen-
play and Frank Taylor will pro-
duce the Seven Arts Production,

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Foy's "Big Boston Robbery’
Jerry Hopper has been signed by

Bryan Foy to direct his The Big

Boston Robbery at Paramount.

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Jack Byrne At MGM

Spiegel NAC Director &

Region 7 Special Rep

Sydney Speigel of Toronto, vice-
chairman of the Canadian Region
of the National Association of Con-
cessionaires and manager of Super
Pufft Popcorn Ltd., has been ap-
pointed NAC vice-president for
Region No. 7. He will therefore be
v-p for his own group and a direc-
tor on the board of the parent or-
ganization. Chairman of the Can-
adian Region, which is No. 7, is
J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr., general
manager of Theatre Confections
Ltd., Toronto. NAC bylaws now
call for seven such y-p’s.

manager. Allen has just been
elected president of the Cana-
dian Motion Picture Distribu-
tors Association.

Not too many years ago Astral
was one of the small Canadian in-
dependent distributors in a field
dominated by very large compan-
ies. Today it often racks up more
in a week in key cities than those
companies. And some of the lead-
ing figures in the past operations of
those firms are Astral associates.
Astral is associated with A. W.

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20th-Fox Pacts Ina Balin

As a result of work in From
the Terrace, In alin has been
signed to a long-term contract by
20th-Fox.

Toronto Tent Got
60 Gs Via VCI

The sum of $60,000 came to the
Variety Club of Toronto for Var-
iety Village as the profit of the
recent International convention, it
was revealed by R. W. Bolstad,
finance chairman, at the regular
monthly meeting. The meeting,
designated a ‘‘Salute to the Con-

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Shelly To Reorganize?

Reorganization of Shelly Films
Ltd., Toronto lab and rental studio,
is being negotiated by Leon Shelly,
president, following reported finan-
cial difficulties. The negotiations, if
successful, will bring in new prin-
cipals. Shelly services Fox’ Cana-
dian Movietone News, with Charlie
Quick the lenser.

Successor to John P. Byrne, who resigned as MGM's
general sales manager recently in a surprise move, is
Robert Mochrie, with the company for the past three
years. Mochrie, an industry veterar. has been working

TORONTO CHANGES OF RUN

A number of changes of run have been announced in the Famous
Players, B & F and 20th Century Theatres groups in Toronto. Com-
mencing July 15 the Palace and Parkdale theatres will join the Nor-
town group which, also, presently comprises the Birchcliff and West-
wood in playing day-and-date on a direct or delayed moveover run
from first run.

On July 11 the Runnymede, College and Beach theatres will join
the 20th Century Theatres’ Downtown group of theatres in a day-and-
date combination.

On July 18 the State, Kingsway and Scarboro theatres, presently
in the 20th Century Theatres group and B & F Theatres’ Donlands,
Eastwood and Parliament theatres will join the Famous Players’
“Show of the Week.”

VANCOUVER PIONEERS’ PICNIC

Vancouver branch of the Canadian Picture Pioneers has arranged
“a picnic for everybody in the industry within driving, boating or
flying distance of the city” on Sunday, July 31 at Birch Bay, Washing-
ton, USA.

Harry Woolfe and Art Graburn represent the exchanges, Frank
Marshall and Bob Kelly Odeon Theatres and Dick Letts and his assis-
tant at the Strand Theatre Famous Players. President of the branch
is Donn G. Foli. All theatres within two hours of Birch Bay by the
new Vancouver Island ferry service have been invited.

“The Pioneers will pick up the tabs, aided we hope by small
donations from the two circuits, but either way we figure that this,
the first industry get-together in years, is a morale builder,” says
Foli. “It will be something to convince the youngsters, and some of
the oldsters too, that this industry is very much alive and far from
moribund.”

on Ben-Hur for the past year. The assistant general sales
manager is Herman Ripps, formerly Western Div sales
manager. Maurice Lefko, who joined MGM in July, will
handle Ben-Hur domestically. He was with 80 Days.

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vention Committees’’ one, saw
Chief Barker J. J. Fitzgibbons, Jr.,
convention chairman, presented
with a diamond tiepin by Bolstad
for Tent 28 and heard him praised
for the ‘“‘effective leadership’ that
led to success.

“TI came here to praise others
and here I am going home with
the loot,’’ said Fitzgibbons, after
a standing ovation. Recalling that
illness had caused him to miss the
closing dinner, he praised Win
Barron, ceremonial barker, for
the gracious excellence with which
he had carried out his duties as
toastmaster, at the same time un-
dertaking matters that would have
been handled by Fitzgibbons.

Fitzgibbons saluted all the spon-
sors and committee chairmen by
name, as well as the Variety Wo-
men’s Committee and the helpers
from the WOMPI organization. He
stated regretfully that he could not
read off all the ones who had con-
tributed to the success of the con-
vention but did mention some who
did outstanding jobs, among them
motion picture cameramen and
photographers. Roy Tash present-
ed the tent with newsreel clips of
35 mm. film of the doings.

In the absence of Dan Krendel,
registration committee head, Fitz-
gibbons gave the number of regis-
trants at the convention as 785 and
pointed out that those from Toron-
to totalled the highest number ever
to attend from one tent.

Fitzgibbons announced that over
80 letters and telegrams had been
received from visitors attending
the convention praising it as the
“‘ereatest ever’? and these would
be photostatted and put in a spe-
cial scrapbook, along with news-
paper clippings and photographs.
This special convention exhibit
would be kept permanently in the
clubrooms for all to examine.

The Chief Barker stated that a
regular meeting would be held
Tuesday, July 26, the first time
for one in either July or August,
in order to give impetus to the an-
nual Variety Baseball Game,
scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 10.
He announced that a 3,000-foot, 16
mm. color film af the convention
would be ghown at the meeting.

Astral Growing

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Perry, former president and gen-
eral manager of Empire-Universal
Films, for years Canada’s largest
distributor, in World International
Productions Ltd. In London several
weeks ago Jack Labow, former
Canadian general manager of RKO,
opened an office for Granada In-
ternational Films Ltd., an Astral
associate, An associate little known
to the trade is Jack Cowan, who
is interested with Astral in Trans
Europa, a company which has the
Artkino franchise.

What made the difference for
Astral was the rise of foreign films
in the Canadian market, a situa-
tion predicted by Astral long be-
fore it became marked. He _ be-
lieved so strongly in this possibil-
ity that he approached various in-
dustry personalities to consider
joining forces but got little re-
sponse. He went ahead, strongly
supported by Solway.

This year Astral will have 36
features from the USA, Russia,
Sweden, Germany, Italy, Japan
and other countries. It has such
varied films in the theatres right
now as. American-International’s
The House of Usher, the NY long-
run feature Rosemary from Ger-
many and Russia’s And Quiet
Flows the Don.

The Russian films, in particular,
have been great grossers for As-
tral, among them Swan Lake Bal-
let, The Idiot, Fate of a Man,
Othello and Don Quixote. Coming
up are First Day of Peace, Sampo,
White Nights and others.

Still in active distribution is As-
tral’s backlog, in which there are
60 A-1 features, 40 sub-titled Soviet
ones, 40 French natives, 60 Italian

CONGRATULATIONS,

REV. RAY!

dubs and from 25 to 30 German
productions dubbed, sub-titled or
native.

Astral has also taken over world
distribution rights to two Canadian
features, Ivy League Killers and
Now That April’s Here. Ivy League
Killers, produced by Norman Klen-
man and directed by Wm. David-
son, has never been distributed.

Astral and its principals are in-
terested in other phases of enter-
tainment, including a portion of
the new Peterborough radio sta-
tion. The TV_ sales subsidiary,
Telefilm of Canada, is active under
Dick Rosenberg.

Another Astral wing, Maple Pro-
ductions, has just acquired world
rights to Riverbank Productions’
15-minute series, Tales of the
River Bank, which has_ been
shown in Britain by the BBC. This
company, which Solway manages,
also converts foreign footage for
use on Canadian TV, editing it and
applying English sound tracks.
Right now it is doing that for a
series of acts to be called Circus
Time. It recently placed two Ulan-
ova dancing subjects on TV that
were edited in this way.

Today Astral, the only small in-
dependent that grew instead of
fading out, has resident represen-
tatives in Paris, London, Rome,
Tokyo and Munich. It not only
distributes in Canada but buys
world rights. With so many con-
nections, types pictures and
kinds of activities it is certainly an
unusual operation. But, thanks to
Allen’s good instincts about the
future of foreign films and Sol-
way’s executive ability, it is not
only unusual but successful.

People in the Canadian enter-

tainment industry will be happy
to hear of the honor that has
come to one of the chaplains of
the Variety Club of Ontario,
the Rev. Ray McCleary, MBE,
BD, DD. The popular Ray, who
brightens almost all of the Tent
28 meetings with his wit and

geniality, has been appointed
General Secretary of the Missionary Funds of the

United Church of Canada.

In that capacity he will be travelling through all parts
of Canada and there’s no more enjoyable way to exer-
cise the famed fraternal spirit of Show Business and
the Sports World, which are combined in Variety, than

to welcome Ray McCleary.

just phone him.

If you hear he’s in town,

A heartier and better human being than Ray McCleary
is hard to find. People have their favorites and he’s a
favorite of the favorites. In Toronto, where his own
parish is the centre of one of the finest juvenile projects
anywhere because of his leadership, Ray McCleary is
pointed to as one of the community’s finest ornaments.
Woodgreen Community Centre, which he brought about
through enlisting the public, means much in many lives.

Our Business

SPRUCE UP NOW

‘THIS is the time of year when
many theatres throughout
our country expect a large in-
crease in attendance, for rea-
sons it arouls be redundant to
cite. In this per-
iod many pat-
rons will be at-
tracted who
have not been
in the habit of
coming for some
time.

For the past
six months busi-
ness has been
abnormally poor for many the-
atres. A combination of attrac-
tions which failed to draw at
the boxoffice and bad weather
conspired to reduce grosses to
a point that made many the-
atre owners and circuit oper-
ators attempt to pare expenses
in the extreme. Under such cir-
cumstances theatre operation
is likely to become somewhat
sloppy. Lack of the use of paint
may become visibly annoying
here and there. Some theatres
probably fell into the trap of
becoming understaffed or poor-
ly staffed. The calibre of em-
ployee who meets the public
may have been lowered be-
cause of the desire for econ-
omy or through sheer neglect.

First-run theatres through-
out the country expect to show
some very fine product this
summer and should be able to
attract a great many people
who have not been inside a
theatre for a very long time.
With this upsurge in business
it is important to make a fine
impression; to have them
greeted by a friendly and
charming cashier, a courteous
doorman, an attentive man-
ager, a helpful usher.

The extra patronage we ex-
pect to lure will be drawn from
that large group who are not
regular theatregoers. To these
people we now have our an-
nual opportunity to prove how
much better it is to see a fine
movie on a large screen in a
well operated theatre than it is
to sit at home night after night
watching TV. Only the right
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We have heard some very un-
complimentary remarks about
the operation of certain the-
atres and their manner of treat-
ment of patrons. This should
never be countenanced at any
time but to permit it in this
present summer period is seer
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JUDGING FROM the varied and conflicting professional
reactions to the plays, players and supplementary theatrical
arts at Stratford this season, drama criticism is a highly
personal matter. Since the drama critic operates in the Town-
ship of Drama, County of Art, Province of Opinion
(“Opinion,” states the Pocket Oxford, is “Be-
lief based on grounds short of proof’’), he
can be governed by whim when he’s sure he’s
being ruled by critical judgment. And who,
in the end, can say him nay?

_If I were a potential patron seeking
guidance who reads more than one critic I’d
forget the practice at this point and take the
high standing of all concerned with Stratford
and their seriousness about their work as the
Clincher. I'd become a lifetime subscriber without further
reference to critics. Especially now, when Brooks Atkinson
of the New York Times, in his farewell as a critic, declared
that our Stratford has the finest troupe of classical actors
in North America.

“After eight years at work in one tradition, the Ontario
festival company plays with the virtuosity of a symphony
orchestra,” Atkinson wrote. “From every point of view this
is its finest season.” i fi

__ The actors put on their show in person, the critics follow
with theirs in print. All obligations to the dramatic arts and
the publishers having been met, Stratford’s Shakespearean sec-
tion settles down for the season.

The opening play, King John, directed by Douglas Seale,
is an infrequently-acted story of cross and double-cross, of
cheap politics played on a grand scale by the King of England
(Douglas Rain) and the King of France (Jack Creley) over
the former’s usurpation of the throne that belongs to the
boy Arthur (Hayward Morse).

To me it is a gallery of vivid characterizations, some
not altogether belonging in that time and place, more than
a play. Christopher Plummer, master of The Grand Manner
once the stock-in-trade of the old-time matinee idol and as
doughty an actor as ever swashed a buckle, serves King John
as Philip the Bastard—and walks away with the show.

Rain, whose effort to assume kingly bearing seems a bit
obvious, is a Scroogy kind of John and Creley, who has a
face like those rubber masks you buy in the novelty stores,
looks like a Mongol lord and sounds occasionally like a
scold. Plummer and Helen Burns as Lady Faulconbridge,
who bore him illegitimately, play a delightful scene in which
they discuss his birth. The manner and bearing of Robert
Goodier, as the rebel Earl of Salisbury, gives nobility to the
disaffection of King John’s subjects.

The play’s major ladies, Sydney Sturgess and Ann Cas-
son, as mothers respectively of the pretender and the conten-
der, enliven their scenes with declamation so impassioned as
to border occasionally on shrewishness.

This was my first look at King John. You have the same
opportunity to do as Cole Porter suggested in his popular
Shakespearean parody, Kiss Me Kate: Brush up your Shakes-
peare. I found King John fresh and far from uninteresting.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, built around the timeless
puzzle that one loves and the other doesn’t, is a wonderfully
winning show as directed by Douglas Campbell. The lunar
lunacies in the enchanted forest involve the viewer very
much in the capers and caprices of the bewitchers and the
bewitched—even though the Stratford stage is not always
suited to such elfin activities.

Helen Burns as Hermia and Kate Reid as Helena, whose
amours are both mischievously and mistakenly directed
through magic, are great. Their larruping is so lusty that
their swains, despite great ardor, seem a bit frigid in contrast.
The girls get the boys and vice-versa in the end—which isn’t
The End. That doesn’t come for another act, during which
Shakespeare ribs actors shamelessly and uproariously through

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‘Finest

Season’

SQUARE

an amateur troupe which entertains the court. The amateurs,
led by Tony van Bridge as Bottom, are Really The End.

Jake Dengel makes a supple, bounding, athletic Puck,
author of most of the mischief under the orders of Bruno
Gerussi as King of the Fairies, whose subjects are played
charmingly by children. You'll have fewer happier evenings
in the year than the one on which you see A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.

That tragedy of errors, Romeo and Juliet, sort of knocked
me off my stride as an auditor with an odd pair of hard-luck
lovers. They seemed a bit bloodless most of the way. Julie
Harris still has many of her Member of the Wedding tones
and mannerisms, even though she exercised her difficult
specialty—that of an adult playing a young girl half her age
and less — very well. And for a while Bruno Gerussi, as
Romeo, made me wonder where he had parked his motorcycle
and leather jacket.

I wasn’t sure the Shakespearean metre was for Miss
Harris, since one man’s metre is another man’s poison, yet
her Juliet has stayed in my mind since I saw it, which was
days ago. By now, I’m sure, the characterizations are in key
and the presentation, a rich one in costuming and action, has
an air of impending and inevitable tragedy.

Plummer as the dashing Mercutio, Rain as a Tybalt full
of hatred and courage and Kate Reid as Juliet’s somewhat
broad and bawdy nurse, are truly excellent.

By all means see this Romeo and Juliet, which Michael
Langham directed. It will fascinate when it doesn’t convince
and it almost always pleases.

The supplementary arts, referred to earlier, are richly
realized. They include the designing and costuming of Tanya
Moiseiwitsch and Brian Jackson, the music of John Cook,
Harry Somers and Louis Applebaum, the fights arranged by
Peter Needham and Douglas Campbell and the dances de-
vised by Alan and Blanche Lund.

The Stratford Adventure has from the first been recog-
nized throughout this continent as high adventure in the
theatre. It has rightfully become a proud adventure for those
connected with it in any way. Most of all, it remains a per-
sonal adventure that is one of the highlights of the year for
many thousands of people who are part of the average life

of our country. That is the best guarantee of its future.

UNITED ARTISTS

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which went before the cameras in
and around Reno on July 12.

Edward Small’s multi-million-
dollar production of Jack the Giant
Killer, starring Kerwin Matthews
and Judi Meredith, with Jerry Ju-
ran directing in color and wide-
screen, and featuring new photo-
graphic and audio effects, started
shooting on July 5.

Also scheduled for production is
Hecht-Hill-Lancaster’s Man of Al-
catraz, starring Burt Lancaster,
with Harold Hecht as executive
producer and Stuart Millar as pro-
ducer.

Something Wild, starring Carroll
Baker and featuring Mildred Dun-
nock, will start filming in New
York on July 25. George Justin is
the producer and Jack Garfein will
direct from his own screenplay.
The film is based on Alex Karmel’s
novel, Mary Ann.

Also on July 25 The Hoodlum

Priest, a Murray-Wood Production
starring Don Murray, goes before
the cameras on location in St.
Louis. Irvin Kerschner will direct.

Five Guns to Tombstone, a
Zenith Pictures presentation, went
before the cameras in Hollywood
on July 11. Robert E. Kent is the
producer and Edward L. Cahn di-
rects.

Revolt of the Slaves, starring
Rhonda Fleming, goes before the
cameras later this month in Spain.
The color and widescreen spec-
tacle, based on the novel Fabiola
by Cardinal Wiseman, will be pro-
duced by Paolo Moffa and direct-
ed by Benito Malsomma.

Lederer WB Ad-Pub Head

Richard Lederer, with Warners
since 1950 as assistant national
advertising manager and latterly
as staff producer, has been named
director of advertising and pub-
licity by Benjamin Kalmenson, ex-
ecutive v-p. Lederer, who started
with Columbia in 1946, will have
his office in NY.

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CANADIAN FILM WEEKLY

July 13, 1960

THE JULE ALLENS

(Continued from Page 1)

Expositor of June 22, 1910 — be-
came the wife of ‘‘Jule Allen, the
young and enterprising proprietor
of the Gem Theatre in this city,”
is the sister of Louis Rosenfeld,
who was The Pioneer of the Year
in 1955. Jule Allen was one of the
several pioneers honored at the
Canadian Picture Pioneers’ ban-
quet in 1952, at which was cele-
brated the 50th anniversary of the
motion picture industry in Canada.
Mr. Allen is president of Premier
Operating Corp. and the vice-
president is Rosenfeld, who is also
president of Columbia Pictures of
Canada.

The Allen- Rosenfeld wedding
took place on June 21 in the Brant-
ford Conservatory of Music, with
music for dancing by the Dufferin
Rifles Orchestra, and was “‘in
every sense .. . a notable affair.”’
Harry J. Allen, his cousin, was the
best man. Later Bertha, Sara’s
sister, married Herb, Jule’s bro-
ther.

Jule Allen wrote his own biogra-
phy for the back of a reprint of
the Expositor story that went to
each guest at the Golden Anniver-
sary celebration. Born in Bradford,
Penn. in 1888, he left high school
at 17 to work in a shoe store, be-
coming a salesman and moving to
Charleston in that capacity. His
older brother Jay, working in
Rochester also came to Charleston
and was a salesman in a clothing
store.

Jule and Jay worked as man-
agers of general stores for a com-
pany that operated in West Vir-
ginia mining communities but it
was a rough life and they returned
to Bradford in 1906. Their father,
Barney Allen, advanced them the
money to open a show and they
sought to do so in Hamilton, from
which Jay had returned after a
social visit, bringing the informa-
tion that it had no movie house.
Jule went there, couldn’t find a
store and went on to Brantford, 25
miles away, where he did and
opened the Theatorium on Nov.
10, 1906.

Jay joined Jule in Brantford and
they opened another theatre in
Brantford and one each in Kitchen-
er, Kingston and Chatham, occu-
pying stores and using folding
chairs. “Early in 1909 there was
a depression and our business suf-
fered. Besides, we felt that the
future of motion pictures was ques-
tionable and we therefore decided
to sell our theatres and look for
some other business. Shortly after
this, as we didn’t find anything
else more promising, we decided
to get back into motion pictures.”

Jule decided on the opening of a
film exchange in Brantford — the
Canadian Film Co. — and the dis-
tribution of Pathe and IMP pro-
duct was begun after he completed
arrangements in London and New
York. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Shalit
had immigrated to Brantford from
Smélensk, Russia, and told them
that that city of 80,000 had no cin-

Short Throws

JOSHUA LIEBERMAN, of B & L
Theatres, was recently installed
as president of the Saint John
Rotary Club. Lieberman, who was
honored by the Canadian Picture
Pioneers several years ago, has
just been appointed one of three
deputy chairmen for the 1960 cam-
paign of the United Fund of St.
John, NB.

ONE YEAR agreement between
the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
and the Canadian Council of Au-
thors and Artists ended the con-
siderable possibility of a_ strike.
The CCAA has 13,000 members
drawn from Canadian dancers, ac-
tors, writers and TV personalities.

PERMISSION to wind up Cin-
ema (Canada) Pictures Ltd. was
granted in Osgoode Hall, Toronto,
to Russell R. Grant and John T.
Frame, liquidator and shareholder
respectively. The company hasn’t
been active for years.

MANAGER of CBLT, Channel 6,
Toronto, is now Michael Hind-
Smith, 29, who joined the CBC ad-
ministration in Ottawa in 1953 and
was last at CBOT, Ottawa, as a
producer. The post, said J. W. R.
Graham, Ontario director of CBC
TV operations, is newly created.
Hind-Smith will be responsible for
new development in local program-
ming, sales and promotion at
CBLT.

Theatre Posters, Toronto,
Takes Over Wpg. Office

Operation of Theatre Poster Ser-
vices, Winnipeg has come under
the direction of the Toronto office
as of July 1, it was announced in
the latter city last week by Mur-
ray Sweigman, president and gen-
eral manager. Somer James, Win-
nipeg manager, is no longer affil-
iated with the company.

Sweigman stated that he intends
to make the branch in the Manito-
ba capital the main depot for ac-
cessories and services for Western
Canada. He will name a new man-
ager shortly.

ema. Jay was given $3,000 to open
a theatre in Smolensk. ‘‘He could
only get an upstairs location and
couldn’t speak the language. So
that venture was unsuccessful and
Jay returned to Brantford without
any money left, but with a mous-
tache. He was not yet twenty.”

Jay, who had just been married
to Miss Rae Abramson of King-
ston, was assigned to open a film
exchange in Calgary with the films
from the Brantford exchange. Jule
joined him and they expanded in
the exchange and theatre field in
the West. They transferred their
headquarters to Toronto in 1915,
Jule coming first and Jay later.
And they’ve been in Toronto ever
since.

News Clips

Wm. Castle, producer of Colum-
bia’s 13 Ghosts, stopped off in To-
ronto as part of his eastern tour
following the opening of the pic-
ture in Broadway’s Capitol .. .
Odeon is installing new projection
equipment in its Roseland, New
Glasgow, NS, as part of a refur-
bishing of the theatre . . . Gurston
Allen, QC, Premier Operating, To-
ronto, has been elected one of
three vice-presidents of the YMHA,
Toronto . . . The Stratford produc-
tion of HMS Pinafore, to be direc-
ted by Tyrone Guthrie, may be
filmed, reports Herbert Whittaker
in the Toronto Globe & Mail. Dr.
Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis are
associated in a film company
which holds the rights to Hugh
MacLennan’s book, The Watch
That Ends the Night, and a novel
by James Aldridge, The Hunter
. . . It is heard that a film about
the life of Theodor Herzl, one of
the founders of the Zionist move-
ment which led to the establish-
ment of Israel as a state, has
been made. Lloyd Bochner is the
star, Leo Orenstein the director,
Dr. George Luban the producer
and Irving Teitle the scripter. Film
was completed in 17 hours during
the free time available at the stu-
dio of CHCH-TV, which Ken Soble
heads.

Fifty-year history of the Royal
Canadian Navy was filmed by the
National Film Board for a one-
hour CBC TV program at 10 p.m.
on July 19. Called An Enduring
Tradition, it was produced by Wal-
ford Hewitson, directed by Kirk
Jones and has a commentary by
M. Charles Cohan Allied
Broadcast Services Ltd. has been
incorporated in Ontario by H. E.
E. Pepler and A. E. Stewart to act
as radio and TV station represen-
tatives and as an ad agency, with
head office in Toronto . . . Charles
Cohen has been named executive
assistant to Richard Lederer, War-
ners’ new ad and publicity direc-
tor, NY .. . Richard F. Walsh,
president of the IATSE, was elec-
ted chairman of the Will Rogers
Memorial Hospital and Research
Laboratories, Saranac Lake, NY,
to succeed the late Robert J.
O’Donnell. The institution is open
to anyone in the American and
Canadian amusement industries
. .. The annual IATSE convention
will be held at the Conrad Hilton
Hotel, Los Angeles, on August 1,
with the executive board meeting,
to be attended by Hugh Sedgwick,
vice-president from Canada, on
July 25... In the UK Rank and
Rediffusion announced their joint
entry into pay-TV through Tele-
meter.

WB's 'Girl Of The Night’
Kay Medford stars in Warners’

Girl of the Night, now before the
cameras in NY.

TV HURT FILMS?

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mons in answering a question by
D. M. Fisher, CCF MP from Port
Arthur, Ont. Fisher, pointing to a
recent statement in Famous Play-
ers’ annual report about the ad-
verse effects of TV, had said that
“there has been in the last dec-
ade quite a revolution taking place
on both the technical and distribu-
tive side and I want to know how
the National Film Board is gearing
to this.’’ Its annual report made
only a minor reference to it.
Fisher was also told that NFB-CBC
co-operation was fine as is, de-
spite both being producers and
distributors separately.

That and other NFB matters
came up before the okaying of $4,-
493,504, a raise of $91,000, for the
next year’s NFB activity. The Hon.
J. W. Pickersgill, Mrs. Fair-
clough’s predecessor as cabinet of-
ficer of the NFB, asked ‘“‘whether
the CBC is now paying for the
Film Board films which it uses
what they are really worth?’ He
was told the 80 hours of CBC time
used for NFB films was paid for
at from one-third to half the cost
of the films as rental. They are
available 30 days later for distri-
bution through non-TV channels.

Pickersgill suggested opening of
NFB theatres at the new Gander
air terminal and at Montreal’s
Dorval when it is finished, for the
benefit of visitors and Canadians
waiting between planes.

Georges Valade, PC from Mont-
real, and Fisher both asked about
complaints against the NFB by
private producers, the former say-
ing he knew one firm that had to
close its doors because it could
not meet the competition of the
NFB. The NFB, said Mrs. Fair-
clough in reply, co-operates with
the private producers and even as-
sists them sometimes but she
could not agree with their sugges-
tion that it should vacate the field.

It was agreed by the Hon. Les-
ter Pearson, leader of the Opposi-
tion, and H. W. Herridge, CCF
MP from BC, that the NFB was
doing fine work.

BUSHNELL WINS

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cation for a TV station to serve
the Ottawa Valley. Granada is also
in this group.

The Halifax licence will go to a
company organized by radio sta-
tion CJCH in which Canastel
Broadcasting Corp. of Toronto, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Asso-
ciated Television of Britain, is a
shareholder.

The BBG granted an increase of
power to CKCO-TV, Kitchener,
which Famous Players operates,
and approved purchase of CKGN-
TV, North Bay, by Mrs. C. E.
Campbell of Port Credit, daughter
of publisher Roy Thomson.

BBG recommendations must
have final approval by the cabi-
net and are issued through the
Dept. of Transport.

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IT STARTED IN NEW ROCHELLE

...Wednesday night, June 15th, in
Loew’s New Rochelle Theatre, at a
sneak preview of the new Shavelson-
Rose production, ET GTARTED IN
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It happened as soon as the picture
started rolling...that wonderful
something that makes you know the
audience is thrilling with enjoyment
of the picture. . . laughing out the
dialogue... having themselves a
whale of a good time.

There is so much to be said about
IT GIARTED IN NAPLES that |
hardly know where to begin...a Clark
Gable that the audience loved and a
Sophia Loren back to her gayest and
loveliest that the audience also loved,
especially the men...the starlit
debut of a little boy named
Marietto, who’s so good that

he softly steals every scene

he’s in... beautiful, beautiful new
Kodak color showing you all of the
wonder-hues of the Bay of Naples,
of the Blue Grotto and the Mediter-
ranean sky...and above all a fast,
joyful, music-comedy-filled story that
made the audience go out smiling,
happy and satisfied.

Please see all of these things for
yourselves. We want everyone in the
motion picture business to see our

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In every major city and town of this
country, we are arranging a program
of red carpet previews and you are
more than cordially invited.

The times and places of these
previews will be announced within
the next few days. Please see
IT GIARTED IN NAPLES.
I guarantee this—that you will
have a wonderful time.

Sincerely yours,

Garay Cor

.Vice President in Charge of Worldwide Sales
Paramount Pictures Corporation

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